The FDA announced it has reviewed Olympus’s updated, validated manual reprocessing instructions for its TJF-160F and TJF-160VF duodenoscope models, and recommends facilities using the devices ...

Olympus has issued updated manual reprocessing instructions for duodenoscopes that were linked to a rash of superbug infections, prompting a recall of the medical devices, earlier this year. The FDA ...

Three months after deadly superbug outbreaks sparked alarm nationwide, U.S. hospitals are still searching for how best to clean a controversial medical scope and keep patients safe. Federal regulators ...

The new instrument provides physicians and surgeons with real-time 3D visualization of the colonoscope position and configuration, according to a news release. Ther ScopeGuide technology works by ...

Advances in minimally invasive surgery have enabled patients to visit outpatient gastrointestinal facilities for procedures rather than hospital operating rooms. Infection prevention is a top priority ...

Doctors have tied a superbug outbreak at a foreign health facility to a medical scope that Olympus modified last year in an attempt to reduce its risk of spreading bacteria between patients. Five ...

Earlier this year Olympus Corp. (“Olympus”) announced that it would recall and redesign its TJF-Q180V duodenoscope following its link to deadly patient infections in the United States and abroad. This ...

Olympus showcases its scopes at a Washington, D.C., medical conference in May 2015. (Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times) Faced with superbug outbreaks in three countries by early 2013, Japanese device ...

Olympus Corp. voluntarily recalled its troubled medical scopes Friday on the same day it received federal approval for a redesigned device the company and regulators hope will end outbreaks of deadly ...

Nearly two years before recent superbug outbreaks at two Los Angeles medical centers, the maker of the scopes involved was already warning hospitals in Europe about the risk of such patient infections ...